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The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations

Autor Gregory J. Kasza
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 aug 1995
The ability to organize millions of people for political purposes is a potent and relatively recent weapon in the struggle for power. Political scientists have studied two types of mass organization, the political party and the interest group. In this book Gregory Kasza examines a third type, which he calls the administered mass organization. AMOs are mass civilian bodies created by authoritarian regimes to implement public policy. Officials use them to organize youths, workers, women, or members of other social sectors into bodies resembling the mass conscript army. A network of AMOs produces a conscription society, a major force in twentieth-century politics in over 45 countries.

Using comparative history and organization theory, Kasza analyzes the politics of the conscription society in both military and single-party regimes. He discusses the origins of AMOs in Japan, the Soviet Union, and Fascist Italy and their subsequent spread to China, Egypt, Nazi Germany, Peru, Poland, and Yugoslavia. He focuses on the use of AMOs to curb political opposition, to mobilize for war, and to shift control over the means of production. Kasza shows how, in the hands of despotic rulers, AMOs have contributed to the extremes of political barbarism characteristic of the twentieth century.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300062427
ISBN-10: 0300062427
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

Notă biografică

Gregory J. Kasza is associate professor of political science and East Asian languages and cultures at Indiana University.